arXiv Open Access 2026

Play-Testing REMind: Evaluating an Educational Robot-Mediated Role-Play Game

Elaheh Sanoubari Neil Fernandes Keith Rebello Alicia Pan Andrew Houston +1 lainnya
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This paper presents REMind, an innovative educational robot-mediated role-play game designed to support anti-bullying bystander intervention among children. REMind invites players to observe a bullying scenario enacted by social robots, reflect on the perspectives of the characters, and rehearse defending strategies by puppeteering a robotic avatar. We evaluated REMind through a mixed-methods play-testing study with 18 children aged 9--10. The findings suggest that the experience supported key learning goals related to self-efficacy, perspective-taking, understanding outcomes of defending, and intervention strategies. These results highlight the promise of Robot-Mediated Applied Drama (RMAD) as a novel pedagogical framework to support Social-Emotional Learning.

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Elaheh Sanoubari

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Neil Fernandes

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Keith Rebello

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Alicia Pan

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Andrew Houston

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Kerstin Dautenhahn

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Sanoubari, E., Fernandes, N., Rebello, K., Pan, A., Houston, A., Dautenhahn, K. (2026). Play-Testing REMind: Evaluating an Educational Robot-Mediated Role-Play Game. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00300

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